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Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.
About Carlos Hernandez
Carlos A. Hernandez is an experienced and dedicated senior trial lawyer at Carpenter & Zuckerman. With a rare authenticity and a genuine desire to see justice prevail, Carlos approaches every case with compassion and resolve. The idea of “paying it forward,” articulated by Ralph Waldo Emerson, is and has been a driving force in Carlos’ career and personal life. As a bilingual attorney and son of Mexican and Cuban immigrants, Carlos champions giving an authentic voice to individuals and communities in need, including those from linguistically and culturally diverse backgrounds.
The opportunity afforded at Carpenter & Zuckerman, allowing Carlos to use his legal skills alongside the firm’s resources and collective expertise to obtain justice for injured clients, brings him deep fulfillment. Carlos credits the firm’s 30-year winning history with empowering him to successfully take on a variety of civil rights and personal injury cases against well-funded corporate defendants and various federal, state, and municipal entities. Since joining Carpenter & Zuckerman, Carlos has obtained verdicts and settlements in excess of $200 million.
Before joining the firm in 2018, Carlos served as a judicial extern for the Honorable Philip S. Gutierrez of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California and the Honorable Gregory W. Alarcon of the Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles. He also worked as a law clerk at NBC Universal. Prior to becoming an attorney, Carlo
Proven verdicts and settlements at Carpenter & Zuckerman
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A Los Angeles jury awarded $45 million to the four children of Claudia Fernandez after a drunk driver, whose vehicle owner negligently handed over her keys, struck and killed her at a Boyle Heights taco truck in 2012.
A Riverside jury awarded $40 million to the parents of Orlando Jordan after finding that TGI Friday's and its franchise operator bore 55 percent of the responsibility for his death, having repeatedly served alcohol to a visibly intoxicated underage patron who then stabbed Jordan inside the restaurant.
A Newport Beach hotel guest fell two stories from a balcony with a railing eight inches below California building code height, suffered a skull fracture and catastrophic traumatic brain injury, and an Orange County jury returned a $38,628,127 verdict against the hotel in 2012.
In September 2013 a Los Angeles County MTA maintenance van rear-ended a stalled Honda on the Santa Monica Freeway, and both vehicles caught fire. The driver, Xian Hui Lin, 56, died four days later. The MTA admitted responsibility, and a Los Angeles Superior Court jury in March 2016 awarded his widow and two adult children $8.36 million in damages. The parties then settled and waived appeal.
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.
